Information and support for small to medium sized businesses.
Free Information Sessions about the new Work Safety Act
Guidance Material on the new Work Safety Act
Practical advice and guidance for small businesses
Risk Management approach to managing health and safety
Checklists for small businesses
Manual Handling Training for small retail outlets in the major shopping centres
Serious About Safe Business Program
Serious About Safe Business Pack
12 Ways to Make Small Business Safer (Worksafe Victoria publication)
ACTSafe General Module - Online advice and testing
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A Quick Guide to the ACT's Health
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6 Steps to Risk Management
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Making Your Small Business Safer
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ACT WorkCover's Small Business Toolkit |
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Refer to the Publications page for other resources which may be of use to you in managing health and safety for your small business.
Checklists for small busineses
Checklists, samples and other attachments included in the publication Making Your Small Business Safer and Healthier and available as separate downloadable documents are:
- Sample Health and Safety Policy - example 1
- Sample Health and Safety Policy - example 2
- Induction Checklist
- Chemical Register
- Training Register
- Competency Register
- Slips, Trips and Falls Checklist
- Emergency Procedures Checklist
- Electrical Checklist
- Chemicals Checklist
- Machinery and Equipment Checklist
- Manual Handling Checklist
- Working alone with money, with the public, Checklist
- Risk Assessment Sheet
- Risk Assessment Sheet - completed example.
Manual Handling Training for small retail outlets in the major shopping centres
In April 2008, the OHS Commissioner's office, in collaboration with Coles, ran a series of manual handling training workshops for small businesses located in Canberra's five major retail shopping centres - at Gunghalin, Belconnen, Civic, Woden and Tuggeranong. These free workshops will be offered again in October 2009. Check out the events for October from our Home Page for details.
The Manual Handling Training workshops are provided free of charge. Click here for further details.
Partners in Safety Mentor Program
The mentor program gives small businesses the opportunity to gain practical advice from a large business in their sector. It currently involves two of the ACT's larger construction companies (Bovis Lend Lease and Construction Control) taking on a mentoring role for a selected group of smaller businesses. The program enables small businesses to improve the safety of their workplaces while at the same time complying with health and safety, workers' compensation and injury managament legislation.
The 2008 program involved 7 small businesses working with their mentor companies. The program did not run in 2009.
There is no charge for participation in the Partners in Safety Mentor Program. Click here for further details.
Serious About Safe Business Program
The OHS Commissioner is offering small businesses support through the Serious About Safe Business Program. The program aims to help small businesses take a systematic approach to management of their health and safety risks - at a level suitable for their sized business. The program involves:
- a half-day workshop, tailored to the needs of small businesses
- introduction to the Serious About Safe Business Pack
- advice on the basic steps to be taken by small businesses to ensure they are complying with their health and safety obligations, protecting their workers and risk-proofing their businesses against the potentially devastating impact of workplace injuries
- a Certificate of Achievement and window decal on completion of the program
The program costs $95. Click here for further details.
Serious About Safe Business Pack
This pack contains tools and information to help you identify what you need to do to make your workplace safer and outlines how to go about doing it. The pack is a practical approach to managing safety in the workplace - essentially it is a simplified safety management system suitable for small businesses.
The assessment tool and associated advice sheets can be viewed or downloaded by clicking on this link.
Participants in our Serious About Safe Business Program will be guided through the use of the pack as well as how to m,eet their health and safety obligations, protect their workers and risk proof their business against the impact of workplace injuries.
Click here for further details.
12 Ways to Make Small Business Safer
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Worksafe Victoria have produced this excellent publication which provides straightforward advice on how to manage 12 specific risks to your business:
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The ACT's Work Safety Commissioner provides an online health and safety package for owners, managers and workers in small and medium sized businesses. A Safety Awareness Certificate is provided following successful completion of a self assessment test.